Synonyms
Examples for "despot"
Examples for "despot"
1
Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice.
2
That despot must have a plastic surgery week in and week out.
3
An evilly disposed despot could have used it to practice unspeakable oppression.
4
In the firm of Bannister & Co. he was an untrammelled despot.
5
This despot was one of the most remarkable men of the period.
1
He talked direct democracy and people's revolution, but governed as an autocrat.
2
Force is always the arriere pensee of the individual and the autocrat.
3
The old anarchist turned autocrat now figures in the gallery of demigods.
4
The governor at Sitka was the autocrat of all the American Russians.
5
His opponents see him as a budding new autocrat in Gaddafi's mould.
1
Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
2
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the miser.
3
And the gigantic force was centred in the hand of a tyrant.
4
Thus his earliest ideas are those of the tyrant or the slave.
5
Such was the shameful manner in which the tyrant treated his soldiers.
6
One day they will say you prevented the rise of a tyrant.
7
The most cruel tyrant the northern lands ever knew was Christian II.
8
Before the moon sets, the tyrant of Lanark must fall in blood.
9
I was a thorough tyrant; I did with you what I pleased.
10
But new freedom could not exist in safety under the old tyrant.
11
The melancholy person in his self-scrutiny becomes an intolerant tyrant to himself.
12
No one would understand better how to deal with a petty tyrant!
13
It was only to get him out of the way-theyoung tyrant.
14
The Saurophagus sulphuratus is typical of the great American tribe of tyrant-flycatchers.
15
The passionate-hearted singer amused the captain and half deceived her watchful tyrant.
16
They must be faithful to the traitors and benevolent to the tyrant.
